What program do i need?
 

Can anybody tell me what program I need to take any picture and turn it into a 3d sphere that can be animated? For example- take a map of the earth and
turn it into a globe that actually turns.
How would I do that? Thanks! I'm thinkin 3D-Studio, make jpegs of each rotation then put them all into flash to animate it?

sounds like Cool 3-D or Bryce should be able to do things like that also

anybody know of anything else? i just need a picture to become a sphere that can turn.

does anyone have any info that might help? :)